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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing on coronavirus (COVID-19) in Downing Street, London
THE panel of experts set up by the World Health Organisation has pointed the finger at China and a range of other countries for an initial slowness to react to the outbreak of the coronavirus.
This panel was commissioned at the express wish of the United States and its Western allies, and the framing of this whole discussion in the dominant capitalist media has tried to maintain a focus on these early stages.
Although these naturally entailed all manner of errors — in diagnosis, analysis, epidemiological methodology and bureaucratic delay — the most significant feature of the whole global Covid-19 pandemic has been the widely varying response of different countries and the dramatically divergent health outcomes.
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Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
